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No Tamil Homelands Part 4 903,557 Mostly Tamil Indian Coolies Illegally Entered Ceylon between 1843 and 1859, Higher Than Total Tamil Speakers of 871,700 in 1881
Posted on May 7th, 2012
Dilrook Kannangara
The objective of this article is to show with undeniable proof that there never was any Tamil homeland in the island not to degrade any legal citizen of the island nation.

Toronto, Feb 22 The office of a prominent Tamil newspaper here was ransacked Saturday night for covering the talks of a local Tamil leader with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Kula Sellathurai, president of the United Tamil Council of Canada and the Canada-India Business Council, had recently met Rajapaksa in Colombo to discuss the Tamil issue and hand over funds raised for the orphans of the war. His talks with the Sri Lankan president were covered in the Uthayan newspaper edited by his friend Logan Logendralingam.

Judas sold Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver!

Converted to US$ today with inflation after 2000 years, it might come to a handsome sum, depending on the value of silver then.

In today`s terminology, Money Talks & Bullshit Walks , and Apsara`s greed to save the Bucks and help the father, whilst Dude Danuna is on the run , was to sacrifice the mothers_day.jsp' class=black>mother-in-law.

Sri Lanka is not prepared to be sold in order to regain the GSP plus facility from the European Union and will maintain its policy stand instead of giving in to any unfair demands, Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal told Daily Mirror online.

In an interview with the website this evening the Governor also noted that the country will not be hurt by the loss of the GSP Plus concession from the EU as all the remedial measures have been taken to maintain the economy minus the trade concession.

About twenty protestors gathered in the sunshine yesterday in front of the high-rise building housing the Sri Lankan Consulate in Mid-Wilshire Los Angeles. They very vocally voiced their displeasure over the arrest and detention of retired general Sarath Fonseka who is in Sri Lanka, of course.

When I heard about the feeble, not-well-attended protest I wondered why in the world those people were protesting his arrest in America a country where the retired general surely would surely be arrested should he show his face here again. Among other things, suspected illicit arms trading by a US Green Card holder is not generally tolerated in this country and the retired general most definitely would have been nabbed and detained at the airport.

Retired General Sarath Fonseka was arrested by the Military police for investigations

for commitment of military offences under S/57(1) of the army Act No 17 of 1949 in which any army officer during active service or within the period of six menthes of retirement which states as follows

Where a person subject to military law commits any offence and thereafter ceases to be a person subject to military law, may be taken into and kept in military custody and be tried and punished for that offence by a court martial, provided that, he shall not be so tried after the lapse of six months from the date of the commission of such offence. During the imprisonment he should be dealt with as if he continued to be a person subject to military law. This clears the minds of Fonseka supporters and interested groups on the legality of the arrest. When he has committed offences and whether he has committed any offence is a matter of facts to be determined by the military police.

The comments made by Secretary of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa that to the media that He have proof of the Norwegian government paying journalists to write against the government , is 100% true. When Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the Norwegians and the US have vested interests and used to support the Tamil Tigers in various ways, this is also 100% true. They also supported Fonseka to try oust the government is also 100% true.

I support Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa fully on his statements. As a PATRIOTIC Sri Lankan who has been in the forefront of defending the integrity and sovereignty of our mothers_day.jsp' class=black>motherland since I domiciled in Canada against the LTTE front operators and Organizations, Canadian politicians and INGO`s (not all the Canadian nation) that were hell bent to blame a sovereign government and frame false charges against a democratically elected government in order to create political destabilize, promote the violence further and undermine the economy of a nation that was moving forward with it`s indigenous way of finding a solution to our problems, it is time up that the world has to know what the TRUTH is.

The mounting evidence from foreign and local sources against Gen.(retd) Sarath Fonseka, now held by the Military Police at a Naval base in Colombo, indicate that he is in deeper trouble than he knows.

First, there is the internal evidence collected from the rank and file. In it there is substantial evidence to establish a prima facie case if all his covert and overt moves to stage a coup under his command are put together. Although the finer details are yet to be revealed military sources have connected the links that point directly Gen Fonseka as the master-mind behind the military network getting ready to grab power in the event of a controversial margin of victory coming down to a slim majority.

Brad Adams
Executive Director
Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 101183299 US

Dear Brad:

I just read in Australian News that you guys had come out with another Report on Sri Lanka embarking on Round 17 of the fight with Sri Lanka`s President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the squared circle in front of your building with several hundreds of people witnessing this fight. Many of them were dark skinned Tamils I was told cheering you along to get bashed more. I thought they were your friends, Brad! Not nice.

Fri, Feb 5, 2010, 12:45 pm SL Time,
Feb 05, Colombo: The United States stands ready to continue the long-lasting bilateral partnership between the two countries to help build a peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka, the U.S. President Barack Obama said.

In a congratulatory message to his Sri Lankan counterpart President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the 62nd anniversary of independence, President Obama said for the first time on over a generation, Sri Lanka is not under the shadow of terrorism.

My last article about Sri Lanka was entitled, `Is Sri Lanka Crazy Enough to Elect a Retired General as President?` Yesterday`s election answered that question with a resounding `No!` It actually answered a number of questions with a resounding `No!` Here are a few of those questions:

`Is Sri Lanka willing to elect someone as President who was a convicted rapist, serial womanizer, and alleged wife beater?` That`s what I like: a role model for the nation`s youth.

Earlier they blamed Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe for consecutive election defeats this time they should blame the combination of political parties for the debacle. When the JVP 3%, TNA 6%, UNP 45% , Muslim Congress 1%, and Mano Ganeshan 1% and Former President Mrs Bandaranaike ( well over 50% of SLFP votes) when combined the opposition should have recorded 56% to 107% of votes.

We as Sri Lankans do have many differences between us based on Language spoken/beliefs and caste/race. But it is time to bury all the differences and unite to bring our fragile country back to prosperity that can be shared among all of us without racial, language and/or religious discrimination or barriers.
I was very much active during the war providing every update available to patriots who were interested in the eradication of LTTE terrorism. War wasn`t any difference to the immediate political war erupted between two heroes produced by Sri Lanka into PE.

On 26 January you have a choice. You can have more of the same from Mahinda Rajapaksa. You can have corruption, bribery, nepotism and ego-boosting extravaganza that is costing your family through high taxes and high cost of living, falling income and failing health and education, states Presidential candidate General (Retired) Sarath Fonseka`s manifesto.


The manifesto titled `Vishvasaneeya Venasak` or a change you can trust - was launched this morning at a leading hotel in Colombo and was presented to religious leaders, United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Somawansa Amarasinghe among others by General Fonseka.

By K.T.Rajasingham

In a democracy, the buck stops at the door of the political executive. For good or bad. It is the political executive that faces the music.
Because the political head is accountable to the people, who reposed faith in him (or her) leadership and entrusted the reins of the nation. This is the accepted maxim.
Internationally! Sri Lanka is no exception. So, why this hullabaloo over who should be responsible for the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam?